Again, these posts were so disturbing to me precisely because they weren't that extreme compared to rhetoric common among the religious right. Matt Walsh, a prominent conservative Christian, declared his perceived leftist opponents "goblins" and their anger "satanic." A prominent MAGA pastor, Mark Burns, told a cheering crowd that he's declaring war on every "demonic, demon-possessed Democrat that comes from the gates of hell." In a conversation with the T.P.U.S.A. founder Charlie Kirk, the prominent evangelical pastor Mark Driscoll labeled what he called "soft beta male woke Christianity" as "demonic," a characterization Kirk called "perfect." Kirk, another self-proclaimed Christian, posted this tidbit on his own feed just yesterday: "Whiteness is great. Be proud of who you are."
And do not believe for a moment that such vitriol is limited to prominent pastors or pundits. I consistently encounter even small-town citizens and public officials who tell their own stories of encountering hatred after defying Christian political or legal demands. Crossing the Christian right increasingly means facing threats, intimidation and, in rare cases, even deadly violence...
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